Icy Dock ICYRaid MB662U3-2S Review

Written by Matthew Lambert

March 19, 2013 | 08:08

Tags: #35-drive #external-storage #portable-storage #raid

Companies: #icy-dock

Sequential Performance - AS SSD

Website: AS SSD

AS SSD is a freeware benchmarking tool that performs a battery of sequential read and write tests, as well as random read and write tests and sequential access tests over a 3GB portion of the drive. While it's designed specifically for SSDs, its sequential tests are still a useful indicator of performance for HDDs.

AS SSD

Incompressible Data, Sequential Read Speeds

  • 2 x Internal HDD (RAID 0, SATA 6Gbps)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (SSD, USB 3)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (2 x HDD, RAID 0)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (HDD 1, JBOD)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (2 x HDD, RAID 1)
  • 1 x Internal HDD (SATA 6Gbps)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (HDD 2, JBOD)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (SSD, USB 2)
    • 208.4
    • 198.8
    • 176.8
    • 107.8
    • 107.7
    • 105.7
    • 105.4
    • 33.2
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100
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MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Read Speed

AS SSD

Incompressible Data, Sequential Write Speeds

  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (SSD, USB 3)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (2 x HDD, RAID 0)
  • 2 x Internal HDD (RAID 0, SATA 6Gbps)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (HDD 1, JBOD)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (HDD 2, JBOD)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (2 x HDD, RAID 1)
  • 1 x Internal HDD (SATA 6Gbps)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (SSD, USB 2)
    • 190.7
    • 137.3
    • 129.0
    • 91.6
    • 91.5
    • 86.9
    • 83.7
    • 29.3
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150
200
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Write Speed

Sequential Performance - CrystalDiskMark

Website: CrystalDiskMark

CrystalDiskMark is similar to AS SSD in its use of incompressible data files, performing sequential, 512KB and 4KB random read and write tests.

CrystalDiskMark 1,000MB

Incompressible Data, 1,000MB Sequential Read

  • 2 x Internal HDD (RAID 0, SATA 6Gbps)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (SSD, USB 3)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (2 x HDD, RAID 0)
  • 1 x Internal HDD (SATA 6Gbps)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (HDD 1, JBOD)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (2 x HDD, RAID 1)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (HDD 2, JBOD)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (SSD, USB 2)
    • 223.8
    • 208.2
    • 186.5
    • 113.5
    • 113.5
    • 113.3
    • 111.7
    • 35.0
0
50
100
150
200
250
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Read Speed

CrystalDiskMark 1,000MB

Incompressible Data, 1,000MB Sequential Write

  • 2 x Internal HDD (RAID 0, SATA 6Gbps)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (SSD, USB 3)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (2 x HDD, RAID 0)
  • 1 x Internal HDD (SATA 6Gbps)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (HDD 2, JBOD)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (HDD 1, JBOD)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (2 x HDD, RAID 1)
  • Icy Dock MB662U3-2S (SSD, USB 2)
    • 217.6
    • 198.4
    • 168.7
    • 112.7
    • 106.4
    • 105.9
    • 103.2
    • 30.7
0
50
100
150
200
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Write Speed

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